Author name: Rebecca Ramos

The Sundance Film Festival will move to Boulder, Colo., beginning with the 2027 edition, a transformative change for one of the independent film community’s key annual events. Following a vote on Wednesday by the Sundance Institute’s board of trustees, the city was chosen over the other two finalists, Cincinnati and Salt Lake City. “There was […]

It’s time to get a little “Misty”: Johnny Mathis, the singer who has entertained audiences since the 1950s, is retiring from touring, his team announced Wednesday. “As many of you may already be aware, Johnny Mathis is approaching his 90th birthday this year,” the statement said on Facebook. “So it’s with sincere regret that due

It’s with a combination of sadness and gratitude that I greet “Mid-Century Modern,” a sweet new multicamera sitcom, premiering Friday on Hulu, a streamer not otherwise known for creating multicamera sitcoms. As the last work of Linda Lavin, who died while the series’ first season was in production, the show provides her a solid platform,

A line in “Maybe Happy Ending” describes the lives of fireflies, the once-ubiquitous insects that magically produce their own light. “They only live for two months. But what a beautiful two months.” The same was nearly said of the stage show itself. Of all the new musicals debuting on Broadway this season, “Maybe Happy Ending”

The one-line synopsis for “Bad Nature” is about as juicy as it gets: A successful New York lawyer, having received a terminal breast-cancer diagnosis at age 40, decides to drive to California, confront her estranged father and then shoot him. But this isn’t a thriller or a caper in the vein of, say, Elmore Leonard.

“DEI” may be a verboten term in the current presidential administration, but at Santa Monica’s second Bergamot Comedy Festival, it’s a mandate. The six-day event’s 2025 tagline insists, “Inclusivity Isn’t a Joke.” The festival reviewed more than 750 submissions viewed by an industry screening panel, says executive producer Nicole Blaine. Fifty-three up-and-comers from across the

As a kid growing up with showbiz connections in New York City, Lenny Kravitz had already beheld some of music’s most thrilling live acts by the time he was 10 or 11. “I’d seen the Jackson 5, I’d seen James Brown, I’d seen Miles Davis,” the rock star recalls. “I knew great performances. But this…,”

The woman who fatally shot singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez was denied parole days before the 30th anniversary of the Tejano music superstar’s death. Yolanda Saldívar, now 64, has spent three decades in prison after her conviction for first-degree murder. Saldívar shot the singer in the back at a Days Inn hotel in Corpus Christi, Texas, on

Lady Gaga was all about the Mayhem Ball on Wednesday, making the tour announcement a day after she was sued for allegedly infringing on a surf company’s “Mayhem” logo. “I wasn’t planning to tour this year after my shows in Singapore but the incredible response to the new album inspired me to keep things going,”

The longest Marvel movie has a runtime just over 3 hours. On Wednesday, the studio easily surpassed that length to announce the cast of the newest “Avengers” title. It took 5 hours and 26 minutes for the superhero studio to unveil the stars of the hotly anticipated “Avengers: Doomsday,” which it also announced has started